Role of Media in Modern Society

"Nothing is impossible" – Perhaps everyone knows this famous statement, but not everyone believes that it is true. Looking back, I never thought that I could do the so-called "impossible", but such things unfailingly happen in a lifetime and I cannot flee from them forever. Once I decided to confront impossibility in my studying and surmounted it, and most important, I would never have discovered my passion without that decision.

Mathematics especially interests me - now I could confidently declare that. I used to rule myself out of all math periods. In the past, math, to me, was unnecessarily difficult and impractical. I disliked it, even for a long time I was so frightened of it that at times I thought that in the future I would not do any mathematics-related job. Everything changed since we had our math teacher altered. Her strictness compelled me to pay more attention to her lectures and at the very same time math started to attract me. "You have the aptitude for this subject. Don't waste it" – the new teacher said the words that nobody had ever done to me. Thanks to that encouragement, I finally determined on learning math. My last year in secondary school allowed me to understand how wrong I was to hate math for such a long time.

As I went to high school, studying got harder, especially mathematics - a real challenge that I needed to overcome. Math became my number one priority among all subjects, and the more industriously I worked on it, the more I fell in love with it. "Practice makes perfect" – my endeavor paid off since I got good results for my math tests. But I did not get enough. A used-to-be math-unrelated student like me found it difficult to integrate whereas a competitive environment like my class was not a place for a pimping turtle. That was why once I decided to come out of my shell by presenting my own answer to a math exercise in front of the whole class. Although I solved it wrong and felt so embarrassed that everyone would laugh at...

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On a surface level, genre theory can be seen as a means of “the division of the world of literature into types and naming those types” (Robert Allen). These divisions in the realm of media cater for numerous factors such as audience expectation and commercial viability. Richard Jameson encapsulates the familiarity that accompanies media genre when he states that “name one of the classic bedrock genres – western, comedy … gangster, science fiction – and even the most casual movie goer will come up with a mental image, partly visual, partly conceptual”. Although genre can be used in this style of compartmentalization and preconception as a template for directors, on a deeper level, genre is a means of exploration of themes generated by the current society within which it is created. Braudy states “genre is a powerful interplay of repetition and renewal” and it is this cunning interplay that allows media genres to reflect and reinforce the dominant ideas of society back towards the audience that generates them.
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...Today we live in a world that continually stresses to us that, "All men are created equal." While this sounds great at face value, further inspection tells us that this is far from realistic and sadly may never be. One can examine any aspect of society whether it be race, religion, language, level of education, sexual orientation or economic status and notice that there are numerous characteristics and factors of identity that enable others to treat others differently. This truth may not be pleasant or make one feel all warm and fuzzy inside, however it is our society’s reality, however dismal it may be. Even if the statement above as to the equality of all men were true, how about women? Clearly women have made tremendous strides towards equality in recent decades however; we still live in a society in which the worth of women is measured in their physical appearance and not their intellectual contribution or talents. It is not an unknown secret that many women are paid considerably less than men for doing the same type of work. What effect does this obvious gap between men and women have on our nation’s female population? The effect of this is the unconscious perpetuation of the understanding that women are inferior to men in our society. This also stands in direct contradiction to the claim that we are all created equal. This gap between men and women can be seen in countless social arenas, such as, the workplace, the average...

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The Deindividuation of Society
Since the beginning of time, mankind has advanced as a society of many; each person and individual a piece in the great machine that is time. This unity, this joining of forces, has driven mankind forward throughout the dark ages of humanity’s past and into the modern world people live in today. Much has changed with the passing of time, but what has not changed is humanity’s primal instinct to create allies and forge relationships to stand united against the forces that would oppose them. This bond is essential to the structure of society and is the foundation on which culture is built, making this “Deindividuation” of society all the more disturbing. This rapidly growing problem can be linked as a source of increased crime rate, dangerous hive-mind behavior, and large-scale social destabilization.
Deindividuation is, in essence, the apparent loss of individualism and individual accountability that can take place when someone participates as part of a crowd or group. It can cause an individual to be more likely to donate more to charity, but also be the source behind them to being more likely to engage in mob-like violent behavior. There are many examples in which the effects of deindividuation can be seen in real-world situations. Deindividuation can take place in a plethora of situations such as the police, the armed...

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Role of Media in our society
In the present scenario, after “tech savvy “ it is the “Media savvy” that has become synonymous with today’s generation. In the era of super computers and super technologies, the Media is considered as the mirror of the modernsociety. Undoubtedly the Media plays a spectacular role in building the mindset of the society. It provokes people to pass suitable judgments on certain issue rather than being judgmental over an issue.
The importance of Media can be figured out with the image of most of the Indian houses who though begin their mornings with the new sunrise and chirping birds but it would be slightly incomplete without a fresh cup of tea and the newspaper which is knocking at their door from the very mornings.
As the dimensions of the Media has become broad, it would be purely injustice to deal it in just a word or a sentence. Therefore it has been described under two categories i.e. the traditional and the digital form of Media. As we all know that the traditional form of Media constitutes the oldest form of communication between the public and the world outside. Generally it includes newspapers , magazines , radio and all other means which were used previously as a communicator between the...

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Introduction
The media is unquestionably a pivotal institution in society. Media is the main means of mass communication, which includes visual, audio, and print. The media affect society by molding opinions and perspectives. Therefore, as the fulcrum of society, the media plays various roles such as communication, consolidation of information, and as a watchdog of society along with its institutions. In addition, it is a source of entertainment, advertisement, and corporate social responsibility.
Communication
The media has a wide reach in society. Due to its vast outreach, the media play a crucial role in communication. It relays information to the masses such as press statements, where individuals and government institutions relay specific information, such as statutory bills and caveats on the sale of immovable chattels. The media as an institution transcend geographical boundaries enabling the society to access cross border information such as news, sanctions, and current affairs. This may be across several miles away, therefore, forming the perspective of recipients of these communications. In...